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Photo 15/9

Record Id:

040-003039972

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003039524

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100035586095.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 15/9

Title:

Elgin Collection: The Tirah Expeditionary Force. Photographer(s): Bengal Sappers and Miners

Scope & Content:

Dark green full leather bound album measuring 315 x 405 mm, with prints mounted on page with letterpress captions pasted beneath. The sixty prints in the album are a selection of some 291 photographs offered for sale in the catalogue issued by the Photo School of the Bengal Sappers and Miners at Rurki. A copy of this catalogue is inserted in the album.

The album documents military activity in Tirah in 1897–98 and includes topographical views and panoramas, camp scenes, group portraits of army officers and a few views of military actions. One of the several contemporary account of the campaign, Colonel H. D. Hutchinson's 'The Campaign in Tirah 1897–1898' (London, 1898), contains a good deal of information on many of the photographs and also has a number of maps pinpointing their location.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003039524
040-003039972

Is part of:

Photo 15 : Elgin Collection: photographs relating to the Viceroyalty of Lord Elgin. Photographer(s): Beato, Felice

Photo 15/9 : Elgin Collection: The Tirah Expeditionary Force. Photographer(s): Bengal Sappers and Miners

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-003039524[0010]/040-003039972

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 15

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

60 items

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Start Date:

1897

End Date:

1898

Date Range:

1897-1898

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 140 mm x 195 mm to 139 mm x 1005 mm

Source of Acquisition:

1956: Deposited on permanent loan by the Earl of Elgin, May 1956.

Material Type:

Photographs

Legal Status:

Not Known

Names:

Bengal Sappers and Miners